Bharat Biotech
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Company type | Private Limited Company |
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Industry | Pharmaceuticals |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | Hyderabad, India |
Key people | Dr. Krishna M. Ella |
Products | ROTAVAC[1], TypbarTCV[2], Biopolio, Comvac and JENVAC |
Subsidiaries | Chiron Behring Vaccines [3] |
Website | www |
Bharat Biotech Limited or Bharat Biotech International Limited is a Pharmaceuticals company headquartered at Hyderabad, India engaged in manufacturing vaccines, bio-therapeutics and health care products.[4]
Overview
Bharat Biotech has its manufacturing facility situated at Genome Valley, Hyderabad, India.[5] Currently, the company employs over 700 employees.[6] The company has a presence in over 65 countries and works on making affordable medicines accessible to patients worldwide.[6]
The company has reported to have delivered around 3 billion vaccine doses throughout the world.[6] Some of the breakthroughs include development of Eco-friendly recombinant[7] Hepatitis B and a naturally attenuated strain derived Rotavirus vaccine called ROTAVAC[8][9] They were one of the first to develop vaccines for viral diseases like Chikungunya[10][11] and Zika.[12][13]. They also produces vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis.[14]
COVID-19 vaccine development
In April 2020, the company announced that they have partnered with US-based company FluGen and University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.[15][16]
In May 2020, ICMR - National Institute of Virology approved and provided the virus strains for developing a fully indigenous COVID-19 vaccine.[17][18]. On June 29, the company got permission to conduct human trials of developmental COVID-19 vaccine named Covaxin, from DCGI, Government of India after successful phase-I and II clinical trials.[19][20][21][22]
See also
Reference
- ^ "WHO prequalifies new rotavirus vaccine". WHO. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ "WHO recommends use of first typhoid conjugate vaccine". WHO. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Bureau, Our. "Bharat Biotech buys Chiron Behring Vaccines from GSK". The Hindu BusinessLine. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ "Bharat Biotech International Ltd". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ "Bacteriology Lab | Virology Lab in India | Bharat Biotech". www.bharatbiotech.com.
- ^ a b c "Leading Biotech Vaccine Manufacturers in India - Bharat Biotech". www.bharatbiotech.com. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Process for the preparation and purification of recombinant proteins". patents.google.com. US patent No US8956812B2. 23 August 2004.
- ^ Bhandari, Nita; Rongsen-Chandola, Temsunaro; Bavdekar, Ashish; John, Jacob; Antony, Kalpana; Taneja, Sunita; Goyal, Nidhi; Kawade, Anand; Kang, Gagandeep; Rathore, Sudeep Singh; Juvekar, Sanjay; Muliyil, Jayaprakash; Arya, Alok; Shaikh, Hanif; Abraham, Vinod; Vrati, Sudhanshu; Proschan, Michael; Kohberger, Robert; Thiry, Georges; Glass, Roger; Greenberg, Harry B; Curlin, George; Mohan, Krishna; Harshavardhan, G V J A; Prasad, Sai; Rao, T S; Boslego, John; Bhan, Maharaj Kishan (June 2014). "Efficacy of a monovalent human-bovine (116E) rotavirus vaccine in Indian infants: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial". The Lancet. 383 (9935): 2136–2143. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62630-6. PMID 24629994.
- ^ Kang, G (October 2006). "Rotavirus vaccines". Indian journal of medical microbiology. 24 (4): 252–7. doi:10.4103/0255-0857.29382. PMID 17185842.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ "Bharat Biotech's Zika, Chikungunya vaccines to enter Phase II trials; focus now on private label market". Moneycontrol.
- ^ "CEPI, 치쿤구니아 백신 개발 위해 국제백신연구소-바라트 바이오텍 컨소시엄에 최대 1410만달러 지원". CEPI, 치쿤구니아 백신 개발 위해 국제백신연구소-바라트 바이오텍 컨소시엄에 최대 1410만달러 지원 - 뉴스와이어 (in Korean). 3 June 2020.
- ^ "Bharat Biotech gets breakthrough in developing Zika vaccine". The Economic Times. 4 February 2016.
- ^ "CEPI awards up to US$14.1million to consortium of IVI and Bharat Biotech to advance development of Chikungunya vaccine in collaboration with Ind-CEPI – IVI". www.ivi.int. International Vaccine Institute. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ Singh, Anit; Mitra, Monjori; Sampath, Gadey; Venugopal, P.; Rao, J. Venkateswara; Krishnamurthy, B.; Gupta, Mukesh Kumar; Sri Krishna, S.; Sudhakar, B.; Rao, N. Bhuvaneswara; Kaushik, Yashpal; Gopinathan, K.; Hegde, Nagendra R.; Gore, Milind M.; Krishna Mohan, V.; Ella, Krishna M. (1 September 2015). "A Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine From India Induces Durable and Cross-protective Immunity Against Temporally and Spatially Wide-ranging Global Field Strains". Journal of Infectious Diseases. 212 (5): 715–725. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiv023.
- ^ "UW-Madison, Flugen, Bharat Biotech to develop coroflu, a coronavirus vaccine". Global Health Institute. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Bharat Biotech ties up with US varsity for Covid vaccine". Hindustan Times. 20 May 2020.
- ^ "ICMR teams up with Bharat Biotech to develop Covid-19 vaccine". Livemint. 9 May 2020.
- ^ Chakrabarti, Angana (10 May 2020). "India to develop 'fully indigenous' Covid vaccine as ICMR partners with Bharat Biotech". ThePrint.
- ^ "India's First COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Approved for Human Trials". The New York Times. 29 June 2020.
- ^ "Human trial of India coronavirus vaccine announced". BBC News. 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Bharat Biotech's Covid vaccine 1st in India to get approval for human trials". The Indian Express. 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Covaxin: India's first COVID19 vaccine candidate from Bharat Biotech to begin human trials; check details". The Financial Express. 30 June 2020.